Italy in Mind: An Anthology

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Alice Leccese Powers
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Apr 29, 1997 - Literary Collections - 349 pages
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Comprising short stories, novel excerpts, essays, journal entries, letters, and poetry. Italy in Mind captures all the contradictions of the Italian scene: enduring tradition and trendy consumerism, ravishing landscapes and urban sprawl, demonic bureaucracy and unvanquishable human warmth. Each entry is accompanied by a biography of the author, and the entire collection is preceded by a lively introduction by editor Alice Leccese Powers. The result is a work of enchantment, a tribute both to Italy and to generations of literary travelers.

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In her collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American authors writing about Italy, Powers (The Brooklyn Reader, LJ 12/93) has chosen the somber, brooding poetry of the Romantics--Robert ... Read full review

Contents

HOMER BIGART
3
HAROLD BRODKEY
9
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
19
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About the author (1997)

Alice Leccese Powers is the editor of the anthologies Italy in Mind and Ireland in Mind and the co-editor of The Brooklyn Reader: Thirty Writers Celebrate America's Favorite Borough. A freelance writer and editor, she has been published in the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, Newsday, and many other newspapers and magazines. Powers teaches writing at the Corcoran School of Art and Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and three daughters.

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TitleItaly in Mind: An Anthology
Vintage Departures
EditorAlice Leccese Powers
ContributorAlice Leccese Powers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized29 Feb 2008
ISBN0679770232, 9780679770237
Length349 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Literary Collections / European / Italian
Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Travel / Europe / Italy
  
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